ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,603, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Earphone and earphone control method" was invented by Kiyoto Matsuo (Fukuoka, Japan) and Yu Tanaka (Fukuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This earphone is worn by a user and comprises: a sound pickup unit; a detection unit for detecting movement by the user or the impact of the surrounding environment; and a control unit that performs processing of output sound on the basis of a sound pickup signal picked up by the sound pickup unit and the detection result from the detection unit. For example, not only ambient sound b...